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Am 09.05.2012 15:47, schrieb Mike Frysinger: |
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> our glibc versions long ago stopped working with linux-2.4 due to NPTL being |
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> required. further, we've long set the min kernel version to 2.6.9 in the |
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> ebuild itself. so bumping it to 2.6.16 isn't a stretch. |
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> the driving force here is that glibc upstream is looking to set the min kernel |
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> version to 2.6.16. if there's no real incentive for us to support anything |
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> older, then we'll follow suite. |
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> -mike |
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Can you please keep an old version in the tree? Masked if necessary. |
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There are still virtual private server hosts out there using 2.6.9 |
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(usually old Red Hat or SuSE servers) and with OpenVZ you cannot deploy |
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your own kernel. |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |
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